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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced today (8/3) that WAMU’s Bluegrass Country is the winner of their 2009 HD Radio…
Just this past week, two major US banjo manufacturers have announced the availability of banjo hardware made to vintage specifications. Both…
Dale Ann Bradley graces the cover of the latest edition of Bluegrass Unlimited. The August 2009 issue also includes a lengthy…
CMT is reporting that derogatory remarks about Tim McGraw have been removed from the final copies of the Ralph Stanley autobiography…
Carrie Hassler and her fine young band have been touring in France this past week, and are blogging about their Gallic…
Mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore may be retired from active touring, but he hasn’t stopped writing and the recording the sort of…
With August 1 on the horizon, the airwaves are once again inundated with back to school advertisements. For recently-graduated high schoolers,…
Béla Fleck made another of his periodic visits to The Berklee College Of Music in Boston last week, a visit chronicled…
Chris Pandolfi has sent along the second video installment in his Infamous Stringdusters travelogue, chronicling the band’s ongoing tour of the…
Here’s some unfortunate news about one of the giants of folk and traditional American music. Mike Seeger has been in treatment…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
